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Like many rivers in the western United States, California's Eel River has two types of steelhead trout that swim upstream from the ocean to spawn. Today, these typically standoffish fish clans spawn in separate stretches of the river and at different times of year, but they are more closely related than are comparable groups in other western rivers. Scientists have long wondered why. Now they may have an answer.

A massive landslide from California's Nefus Peak may have blocked the Eel River with a 140-meter-tall dam, creating a lake and forcing steelhead trout to spawn downstream for several centuries until the dam eroded.

LINK (Via: Science)

Woman reels in 850lb marlin

At 85!

Experienced fishermen have been astonished at the elderly woman's ability to play the fish on her line and expertly haul it in to the boat.

LINK (Via:Mail Online)

Another Day, Another 30 plus Inch Brown

31 inches to be exact.

This one electroshocked on the Snake near Osgood by Idaho Fish and Game.

LINK (Via: The Missoulian)

Next Time You Fire Up a Steelhead Dies

Steelhead trout spawning season was saved this year in a southern Santa Clara County creek thanks to wardens who raided an illegal marijuana farm and cleaned up the toxic mess left behind.

In Mendocino County, wardens arrested 12 men and women near Dos Rios for clearing an entire hillside to create their pot farm and illegally diverting 300,000 gallons of water from the Eel River.

Growing pot, and stealing water to do so, is a rising phenomenon statewide, said state Fish and Game Warden Patrick Foy.

LINK (Via: Mercury News)

PETA wants mullet toss banned at annual event

Cletus unavailable for comment.

LINK (Via: Bradenton.com)

Female trout can fake orgasms, care about size

According to Sweden's National Board of Fisheries, female brown trout are known to deceive males during mating....go figure.

LINK (Via: WTOP)